Monthly Archives: March 2015

Hard to know where to start with this week’s post. It has been 7 days of; Meat Free week, a chef on Tripadvisor, deep fried food & food specific cafés. So we’ll crack on. Meat Free Week & Tony Naylor For those that don’t follow Tony Naylor on Twitter, you […]

Late last week Visit England released some interesting figures about chefs, and the recruitment there of, and it got me thinking. Where are all the young chefs? Who, or what was to blame for there not being enough young blood coming into the industry, that the role of Chef de […]

So you may have noticed that this post about the weekly round up of social media has been re-named. Whilst it originally served a purpose, it was a bit long winded. New look – same old tripe, to be honest. Yes, it’s a round up of various food/chef related material, […]

Last week I wrote about the “100 top chefs“, who signed an open letter to The Daily Telegraph complaining about the enforced additional bureaucracy which their kitchens face from the EU. As I mentioned in my reply to a comment on that post, I would also be doing a follow […]

In a week in which Jeremy Clarkson seemed to hog the headlines & social media. There were several winners & losers that just need to be mentioned, along with a prehistoric attitude in a 3Michelin starred kitchen. The people have spoken The undoubted winner in this weeks social networks, has […]

Back with a vengance this week for the usual baking slot. As I’ve been getting into Vietnamese cooking recently makes me have an awful lot of surplus limes at the moment. That coupled with not wanting to go out to get butter (the weather has been dreadful), made me look […]

By the time I publish this post, this story will have made it to more of the mainstream media outlets. The article headline on the front page of today’s Daily Telegraph reads: Top chefs left steaming by EU allergy law. It carries further weight by adding that the two headline […]

This week has shown the many facets of the hospitality sector. There is the ability to turn a viral mistake into a fund raising exercise, the Government have announced something which will please the industry, yet another subjective list & the gullibility of customers. The culinary car crash which turns […]